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L. A. HOUGHTALING.

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Patented Feb. 6, 1883.

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LLEWELLYN A. EOUGHTALING, or ELMIRA, NEW YORK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 271,850, dated February e, 1883.

' Application med october 11, 15H2. (No model.)

Io all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LLEWELLYNA. BOUGH- TALING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Elmira, in the county of Chemung and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gar-Couplings, of which `the following is a specitication.

Myinvention con sistsi u adevice which,whe'n combined with the frame-work of a car and the butter-head of the same, enables an attendant to couple cars without going between them. I attain this object by means of the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of the entire machine, with dotted lines showing a second' position of the iron frame-work, which is attached both to the car-frame and also to the bufferhead, (not the draw-bar.) l Fig. 2 is the plan of the mechanism as seen from above. Fig. 3 is a plan of the mechanism as seen from underneath. Fig. 4 is a plan of the joint in the rods I and E. Fig. 5 is a view of the two' parts when separated. Fig. 6 4is another view of them combined. u

Similar letters refer to the same part of the device in the several figures.

In the drawings, B is alever securely pivoted:

to the top of the buffer-head.`

C isa spring, so fastened to the buii'enhead as to press B firmly against the side of coupling-pin for the purpose of holding it up when lifted.

G is au arm rigidly fastened to the jointed iron framework in such manner that when in the act of coupling the heads come together G is forced against the projecting end of the lever B and removes the pressure of the opposite end from the pin, which then drops by its own weight and secures the link.

A A are the coupling-pins.

`.I is lthe beam of thecar-frame, over which the draw-arm is extended, and is the same to which the operating-lever of my device is attached by means ofthe cockeyes L L, as seen in Fig. 3. l

D is a weight or lug attached to the end of .said lever, which by its weight holds the rod E and the iron frame-work F F forward when D is thrown backof the vertical point, as drawn iuFig. 1, or back, as indicated by dotted lines.

coupling is accomplished.

E is the connecting-arm between the lever I I and the frame F F, and :is connected with lever I-by means of a hinge of peculiar construction, as exhibited in Figs. 4, 5, and 6.

F F Gr is an iron frame, pivoted. into the two sides of the buffer-head at 7c, and is lifted and lowered at will 'by simply moving the ball D backward or forward. When the ball end-of the lever I is thrown backward the frame F Gr is lifted into a position for lifting the plink to the proper level for entering the next drawhead, and also for the projecting arm G to comein contact with the end of lever B in a manner to liberate the pin A simultaneously with the entering in of the link by which the I have contemplated connecting a wheel and crank to the ballarm of the operating-lever I I as a matter of convenience, and haveindeed constructed them with the Wheel attached; but as it is not really essential to the device I have not shown it in the drawings. Theframe F F is simply around rod of metal beuti'nto the shape shown, which is easily understood by' looking at its side view in Fig. l and the under side of it, as shown in Fig. 3. It may or may not have a cross-bar, as shown at m in Fig. 2. l It is immaterial which. The narrowed extension of this frame is hidden by the link in Fig. 2, but is plainly shown in Fig. 3. In practice the narrowed eX tension is bent at an angle, as seen in Fig. l, so

that the lower edge of the approaching draw-- head strikes itjust after the link has entered, and by pressing against it throws the whole frame downl out of the way, by which movement the lug on the'lever lis-thrown forward of the vertical point, where, by its weight, it holds the device in the position ,shown by the dotted lines in Fig..l.

Theobject attained in the use of the peculiar hingeshown'in Figs. 4, 5, and is this: Itis not an unfrequent occurrence for a draw-bar to be broken and detached from the car. In such an event, my lever being securely fast- `ened to the frame-work of the car, and the irony frame F F being attached to the buEer-head of the draw-bar, the coupling device would 4inevitably be broken unless vprovided with some means for the separation of the parts; and this means is provided for in my devicelby the hinge in question, which will be understood by IOO i eLso examining-Figs. 4, 5., and 6, particularly the Y What Iclaim as myinvention, and desire to latter, Where it will be seen that if b were held atthe top, like I in Fig.1, and a, representing E in Fig. I, were drawn forward till the two bars become level with each other, then the Hatted pivot would be in the right position to slip out of the open slot in the end of b. By this` illustration it is easy to understand that in the case above cited, when the buffer-head H is drawn forward sufficiently to bring E and l I into line with each other, the two are separated. l

l am aware of the principle of lifting the link by means of a lifter other than the hand ofthe operator-as a stick held in the hand, a crooked rod attached to the car-frame, a simple bail attached also to the car-frame, 85e.- so that I cannot claim this principle, broadly, ont only that application ot it which l have shown and described as follows:

secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a car-coupling, the combination of the metal frame F, having a projecting arm, G, with the bul'er-head H andthe arm or rod E, lever I I, car-Irame J, and the coacting lever B, spring U, pin A, and link N, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination of the rod or arm E With the lever I I by means of the open hinge a b, substantially as and for the purpose setforth.

3. The combination of the lever B and the coacting spring C with the buffer-head H, pin A, and the operating-arm G.

AMos D. HART, FRED BARBER. 

